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In Germany, too, fish culture is being carried on with } 

 considerable success, and trout are now extensively grown for the 

 market. The late Herr Max von dem Borne did much for fish 

 culture in Germany. On his estate of Berneuchen in the 

 Province of Brandenburg, he commenced a fish-cultural estab- 

 lishment in 1876, a short description of which maybe interesting. 

 The water supply is drawn from a stream known as the Mietzel 

 by means of an aqueduct, and it is thus exposed to considerable 

 variations of temperature. During winter it goes down to freezing 

 point, whereas in summer it goes up to 70 F., and occasionally a 

 temperature as high as 77 F. is reached. 



It is carefully filtered before being allowed to do duty in the 

 hatching tanks, which are made of concrete, and are used for 

 hatching the ova of Saimonida. These tanks are provided with 

 covers. Eggs of the Coregonidce are also dealt with in a special 

 apparatus designed by the proprietor. Six different American 

 Salmonidce. have been introduced, as well as the black bass 

 (Grystes nigricans), the American catfish (Amiurus nebulosus), 

 and others. There are now many other establishments prospering 

 in the country. That of Herr Siegfried Jaffe at Sandfort is a \ 

 thriving place with thirty ponds or more, and an extensive 

 hatchery where many kinds of trout are successfully cultivated. 

 Mr. Jaffe tells me that a very large number of trout are sent to 

 market in a year for eating purposes, and they are only grown up 

 to~a comparatively small size, as they are then more valuable as 

 articles of food, being younger, and more tender, and possessing a 

 finer flavour. With regard to the eating quality of trout, for which 

 purpose a large number are killed annually at the Solway Fishery, 

 I can quite bear this out, the best flavoured trout being those 

 running from half a pound to a pound. 



Strange it is that man, who has tunnelled through mountains, 

 who has bored into the depths of the earth in search of mineral 

 treasures, who has drained many a treacherous swamp, and caused 

 waste and barren lands to yield plenteous crops of corn, or turned 

 them into rich pastures ; who has invented steam engines, and by 

 their means been enabled to traverse oceans and continents in an 

 incredibly short space of time ; who has even made the tremendous 

 agent electricity itself subservient to his will, and made so many 

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